sitting here in the epic queue for 2 hours in queue with a 28min average. and we get skipped? multiple people(~20) at well over an hour all skipped as well.
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Likely due to the lack of alliance pvpers. The ONLY reason I came to the forums at all. See how many posts I have made?? ALL calling for less toxic WPvP such as camping spitting tea bagging etc. The negative things that encourage people to unflag for good.
With less and less in your faction they don’t even have PvP guilds on my server. They cannot practice against one another to get sharp. They get into a BG or arnea? That is the ONLY time they have a chance at an even playing field… but the Horde are far sharper because we come in throngs by comparison and practice around the clock.
What is left of the Alliance on WRA still flagged are true warrior poets.
I am utterly SICK of hearing “If you don’t like it, unflag” when I offer we need to offer a FAR higher level of civility and ENCOURAGE people to remain in pvp.
That only means “If you do not like my toxic piss poor behavior go shove it”, and it also means…
2 hour ques.
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2 and 1/2 hour queue and we get wg atk, game was over in 6m flat.
game started with 40 horde, 25 ally, and half of them were horde mercs.
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That’s OUR server. PLEASE help me spread the word. I am Horde for life… but I know there’s something truly wrong that needs repair. How sad is that.
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im pretty sure we share our warmode shard with other RP servers. and most RPers dont have warmode on.
but epics aren’t warmode. we have basically reached a point where horde has won the battle for azeroth and driven ally out of epics nearly entirely.
can we have mixed teams now? even just as a backup?
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I for one do not wish to EVER fight my own. Horde for life. NOT a solution for me. Instead? This brutal Warleader that shows no mercy would rather openly aid my enemy to see them grow strong.
It’s hard to pick fruit from a barren tree.
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this is what happens when everyone stacks one faction and then Blizz gives them a merc mode option which aint going to sweeten the deal for any of them to swap to alliance, why trade factions when you can just merc mode and skip the queue or sit in the queue and win? best of both worlds.
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If they had Orcs or Tauren on ally side I’d swap over.
Worth it. No but srsly uh 2 hours is really nasty and shouldn’t be a thing. i imagine the problem will be solved in SL for a few months
And just to be clear, this was a random epic bg queue, not specific.
Catch 22. Double edged sword. Blizzard first gave alliance players rather large incentives to flag and participate to try and stop the flood of alliance players leaving… yet they did not give enough. Simple xp boosts and higher gear are overcome in time by a horde player.
They were FORCED to add the merc feature to try to offer a simple planned pvp instance- because… see the whole topic of the thread and where we are today. Then again… what fool wishes to join the ranks of those to be slaughtered… I know… give them a BONUS to merc…
Wonderful circular thought Blizzard. In effect removing ANY incentive at all for any to support Alliance. How about offering full level alliance pvpers special mounts, special mogs, things that none can gain no matter how hard they work on Horde side if you wish to swell their ranks. Just a thought.
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maybe get rid of merc mode amd when bg queues on horde go right up give free faction xfers for a few months? Give alliance better allied races? just make bgs everyone v everyone both alliance and horde get same queues and you just get put on a random team (not that, that will fix imbalance but would fix queue times at least)? In the end I dunno, i just look at classic and see how the faction imbalance has ruined their bgs I dont want it happening here too.
Lol that’s as long as a ptr q atm honestly impressive I haven’t done epics in a long time but it’s sad how it’s got that high between everyone going horde in both pvp and pve and people quitting bfa. Makes sense tho
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Skipped as in players who queued up after you got in before you? That’s crappy. May have something to do with the number of people in your party. I can see a solo queuer getting an available instance before a team of five despite queueing later on.
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Yes that does happen. Tonight, though, at least one solo quer got skipped as well
To some, it’s a challenge. I don’t specifically do that, but i know two folks who do
Point being- no matter the cause of WHY a Horde would merc, they are granted a bonus that negates the bonus they offered to alliance players to grow their ranks. In short- Alliance gets nothing in the end.
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I mean. You can either sit with 2 hour wait times or join alliance and help solve the problem.
There’s a population imbalance and Blizzard is already dangling 50% extra rewards to alliance for joining.
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Bring back black listing so Alliance can queue again. They will never queue again as long as Alliance players can not black list certain BGs. That is how Alliance rolls yo.
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There’s battlegrounds that suck and also the simple fact that the win/loss ratio for alliance can be absolutely terrible. Some days I can log on and bang out everything in one try and others you can sit there for 2+ hours losing match-and-match because people leave as soon as the matches turn. It was worse on deep six where you’d be down to deep two or three.
Ugh… just, ugh.
I’m not sure how much merc mode existence or removal would affect this.
Merc mode was added to alleviate Alliance queue times, back in WoD when they were the overrepresented PvP faction. And still people decided to go Horde and here we are.
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The issue being the xp bonus is not nearly enough of an incentive my friend. So what if as an Alliance I can gain xp faster. Playing Horde I will catch up eventually. Give me higher ilvl gear? Again- so what? Given time the Horde gain the same.
I truly feel they need to offer a lot more. a mount a mog- SOMETHING I cannot gain playing Horde plain and simple.
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